Catch more from ServiceScape Creative Writing on YouTube
We’ve got ten more of these to go and I like to analyze. The safest bet for me is to do five today and five tomorrow to finally put this subseries to rest and get on with the final section of the guide. This one will have some of the important ones while the next one will be mostly for the really nosey as to how Star Trek used basic terms like “human” and “universe”. No sense hitting you with the super text wall.
Like I said, we have two of the important ones here and we’re starting with the Prime Directive, while ending on Stardates. These are some of the things the franchise are most known for and comparing them with the TNG writer’s guide should be interesting. I’m curious how they changed, and what this guide says that the sequel series’ writer’s guide said about it.
To fill out the homepage intro, I give you this:
At this point would you know if Riker was making any of that up?
Tell others about the Spotlight:
At some point we went from Mike Hammer to James Bond.
Sarge Steel #8
FINAL ISSUE
Charlton Comic Group (March/April, 1966)
“The Case Of The Terrible Talon”
CREATOR: Joe Matsui
WRITER: Joe Gill
ARTISTS: Montes & Basche
LETTERER: Jon D’Agostino
Tell others about the Spotlight:
Catch more from Exits Examined on YouTube
I tried reading a Pern novel as we had a few at the local library. I couldn’t get into it, but I can certainly see how it found an audience. It also might have been the novel I came in on, but I don’t remember what that was.
Tell others about the Spotlight:
Chapter by Chapter features me reading one chapter (or possibly multiple chapter for this one) of the selected book at the time and reviewing it as if I were reviewing an episode of a TV show or an issue of a comic. There will be spoilers if you haven’t read to the point I have, and if you’ve read further I ask that you don’t spoil anything further into the book. Think of it as read-along book club.
I wasn’t about to do a story about an evil Op-Center and trying to restore the Soviet Union on Christmas week. It seemed wrong…and in 2024 a bit too close to current situations I wasn’t planning on when I chose this book. We’re coming up on a New Year, but it’s time to get back to this old book.
Last time we killed off another potentially interesting character. That worries me. While the series cast seems to be doing better in this book than the first one, it was the side characters that I actually found myself rooting for while shaking my head at the cast that were going to be part of the later novels. So killing off two perfectly good one-book characters makes me a bit disappointed, and I can only hope the regular cast steps up from the previous book. There are still concerns, and admittedly I am carrying the baggage from the original Op-Center, but there have been some minor improvements. We’re going back to them so hopefully this trend continues.
Chapter 21: Monday, 12:30 AM, Washington, DC
Tell others about the Spotlight:
Now they’re littering outer space with broken logos.
The Strangers #7
Malibu Comics/Ultraverse (December, 1993)
“Prototype-A Behavior”
WRITER: Steve Englehart
CO-PLOTTERS: Tom Mason & Len Strazewski
PENICLER: Rick Hoberg
INKER: Tim Eldred
COLORING: Robert Alvord & Prisms
LETTERER: Dave Lanphear
EDITOR: Roland Mann
BW Media Spotlight 